The altar was badly damaged. There was only one small square of it remaining. The High Firmament Academy could be split between god and immortal cultivators, but they didn't have a singular deity that they worshipped. The academy's altars were built to worship heaven and earth.
The meaning was that no matter what level a person cultivated to, they still needed to have thanks and respect for heaven and earth for giving birth to you.
Every century, the High Firmament Academy would hold an offering ceremony for the heavens. Every thousand years, it would be a huge affair. But they also didn't offer any tributes. This was different from the altars of other sects. For the High Firmament Academy, this ceremony involved everyone within the academy, from the dean to the most ordinary disciples, to bow towards heaven and earth in thanks.
This altar made Long Chen emotional. He knew that not far beneath it was the foundation of the seventh branch academy. That was the first stone in the construction of the seventh branch. It was the most important part. His mission was to set up the divine tower on that foundation.
Just as Long Chen spotted it and felt various emotions, a ray of sword-light pierced his shoulder. His dragon scale armor was instantly penetrated. His blood splashed, and the sharp pain woke him up.
"The attack actually contains spatial laws. It can ignore all defenses." Sensing this sharp pain, Long Chen's heart shook.
The Devil Eye Water Lily truly was worthy of being a legendary existence. If he hadn't cut off its seed pod, then no one here would have been able to endure a single ripple from it.
The Devil Eye Water Lily had two important parts to it. One was the actual flower, while one was its seed pod. The flower was its weapon, but the seed pod was the source of its power.
It had been in a sleeping state, and Long Chen had woken it up. Sensing a sudden threat, it merged its energy into the flower, resulting in the seed pod losing most of its defensive powers. That was what resulted in Bai Shishi managing to cut it off in one blow.
Without the seed pod, it was like a person that had lost the power of their Dantian. Without that source of power, it was now relying on its leaves absorbing the energy of heaven and earth for it to attack. Even then, it still possessed such terrifying power.
With his shoulder injured, he paid more attention to the torrent of attacks. Just then, endless roars started ringing out. Countless black dragons charged towards Long Chen.
They seemed to have gone insane. They actually ignored the attacks of the Devil Eye Water Lotus just to charge at him. Their eyes were red as blood. They were like hungry wolves that had spotted meat.
"You want to devour me?"
Long Chen snorted. Ignoring those dragons, he continued searching for the foundation stone. The torrent of attacks followed him wherever he went. The ground was exploding.
Suddenly, he heard some strange sounds when the sword-light struck something underground. It was as if they had struck something hard.
"Found it!" Long Chen was delighted. Looking down one of the holes resulting from the attacks, he saw a flat stone. That stone was covered in ancient marks. Even these sharp attacks were unable to harm it.
"This is the foundation stone. Its karmic luck is connected to the headquarters of the High Firmament Academy. It naturally cannot be destroyed."
Long Chen took out a jade talisman and tossed it into the hole. That jade talisman instantly transformed into dust when it touched the foundation stone. The dust merged into the stone.
Just as Long Chen was preparing to throw another jade talisman inside, astral winds blew behind him. A giant mouth swallowed him along with the earth.
BOOM!
Long Chen had no other choice but to take out his saber. Saber-light exploded, cutting through that mouth. The dragon fell, a huge hole in its head.
Long Chen came flying out. At this moment, another devil dragon reached him. Its heaven-shrouding wings smashed towards Long Chen. The whistling astral winds tore at the void.
Long Chen was in the Dragon Blood Battle Armor state. His dragon blood was now activated. These devil dragons were driven crazy by it. If they devoured Long Chen, they would undergo a complete transformation. This posed a fatal attraction to them.
Long Chen looked up. The world was filled with devil dragons. The rain of sword-light continued, and even these black dragons were pierced. But they continued to charge at him crazily, ignoring the damage to themselves.
Lightning wings appeared on his back. He was like a bolt of lightning dodging left and right. He was dodging the torrent of sword-light at the same time as he dodged the black dragons.
He wanted to reach the foundation stone. There were many steps that he had yet to complete. But the whistling astral winds and the terrifying rays of sword-light gradually forced him further and further back from his target.
Long Chen was enraged. If this continued, he would fail at the final juncture. But there was nothing else that he could do. These devil dragons were crazy. Quite a few of them had already been pierced with countless holes by the Devil Eye Water Lily, but were still charging at him.
The Devil Eye Water Lily wanted to kill him, and these devil dragons also wanted to kill him. Neither side bothered with the other. They weren't cooperating. As a result, a large number of devil dragons were slain by the Devil Eye Water Lily.
In the chaos, Long Chen also managed to reach out and toss a few devil dragon corpses into the primal chaos space.
"Kill, kill, kill them all! This is a good chance." Even though Long Chen was caught in great danger with the attacks from the Devil Eye Water Lily and the devil dragons, he didn't forget to profit. The torrent of attacks had caused him to be struck by the sword-light several times.
Fortunately, the devil dragons were so huge that most of those attacks had to pierce through their bodies first before striking him. Most of their energy was used up before striking him. The wounds weren't so bad.
Long Chen's body was left bloody from all the attacks. The Devil Eye Water Lily's terrifying power had surpassed his expectations.
Fortunately, the Wood Foundation Divine Trees were providing him with almost limitless life energy. His wounds were quickly healing, and it didn't even seem to affect the Wood Foundation Divine Trees.
Even his consecutive injuries were only resulting in the tiniest fraction of their total life energy being used up. So Long Chen wasn't panicking. As long as he wasn't struck by a major attack from the black dragons, he should be fine.
The black dragons had gone insane. They were crazily attacking and biting. In fact, some of them even killed each other in the chaos. Long Chen weaved through their midst. For now, he was safe.
Long Chen quickly gathered over a hundred corpses in just an incense stick's worth of time. The majority of them were killed by the Devil Eye Water Lily, with only a few killed by each other.
As for the black dragon controlled by Bai Xiaole, it was hiding in the distance, pretending to be dead. As they watched this crazy scene in front of them, their faces were pale with terror.
All of them had joined forces just to handle one black dragon, and it had still cost them some lives. But Long Chen was being chased by over a thousand black dragons, with that terrifying lily also attacking. This was surely the end for him.
"Let's go now. Long Chen can't be saved. If we don't leave now, we'll all die," said the leader of the Blood Drinking Alliance, his voice quivering.
"Shut up. You don't know how strong boss is. Since boss dares to come here, he naturally has the ability to return," barked Qin Feng.
"You-!" The Blood Drinking Alliance's leader was shocked and infuriated. He clenched his weapon.
"If you don't want to die, then shut your mouth. Even if Long Chen isn't here, we still have the power to kill the four of you. Do you want to try it?" Bai Shishi pressed her hand against her sword and stared at him coldly. She could see that now that Long Chen was in danger, these people wanted to rebel.
"Everyone, we can still discuss things nicely. Fighting amongst ourselves at this time is foolish," urged Jiang Yuhe. The Blood Drinking Alliance's leader was truly a fool. He wanted to seize power at this time? How could that be possible?
Ignoring whether or not they could beat Bai Shishi and the others, even if they did manage to kill them, there would be no one to control the black dragon. How would they leave this place alive?
Just then, threads of divine light fell from the sky. This space was locked down. It was like a cage, trapping Long Chen and the black dragons. When the cage appeared, Long Chen's expression completely changed. He couldn't bother with the foundation stone any longer. He rushed out.